PONTIAC -- Oakland County commissioners are asking the county administration to adopt policies to allow mobile food carts at the county courthouse.

A resolution adopted Wednesday asks Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson's staff to develop policies, procedures and permit fees for mobile food carts at the main county complex in Pontiac within three months.

Patterson promised a swift veto of the resolution.

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"I've spent 19 years trying to improve the aesthetic at the county complex," Patterson said Thursday. "I'm not going to turn it into the next state fair Midway.

"What's next, a cotton candy booth?" Patterson said. "It's not going to pass muster and it's not going to get past my veto."

The 531-acre main county complex is on Telegraph Road north of Elizabeth Lake Road with most of it in Pontiac and part of it in Waterford Township.

Commissioners approved the resolution 22-1. It takes a two-thirds vote of commissioners to override a Patterson veto.

Mary Storm of Troy said Thursday that a veto of the resolution by Patterson isn't a surprise. Storm, 57, said she first approached the county about operating a mobile hotdog stand outside the courthouse in 2009. She said she had lost her job and was seeking ways to become an entrepreneur.

"I started with L. Brooks Patterson's office and they just shot me down as quick as they could," Storm said. "Yet I never got a reason why."

Storm said Patterson's deputy "made it very clear to me that Oakland County is too good for a hotdog vendor."

She said there are vendors outside the county buildings in Wayne and Macomb counties, as well as across the street from the state Capitol building in Lansing.

"They're everywhere," she said. "Why is it that Oakland County courthouse is too good to have a hotdog vendor?

Over time, Storm said found supporters in county Commissioners David Woodard, D-Royal Oak, and David Potts, R-Birmingham.

Eleven commissioners are listed as sponsors of the resolution, both Democrats and Republicans.

A pilot program in the north lobby of the courthouse from March 7 to April 1 tested a food cart set up by the contractor that provides meals in the courthouse cafeteria.

The Study Group for Vendor Cart Services concluded the vendor who ran the pilot program lost $95.75 per week.

Storm says she's just trying to make a living.

"Do they thrive on me living on unemployment?" she asked. "I feel right now it's a personal attack against me; that's how I feel."

Patterson, a lawyer and former prosecutor, said he has too much respect for the proceedings that go on within the courthouse.

"I respect the complex and the courthouse and the dignity of the courthouse, and I won't place a hotdog stand in the entrance," he said.